shopboard
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]shopboard (plural shopboards)
- (now historical) A tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed. [from 16th c.]
- (now historical) A workbench or platform on which a tradesman, especially a tailor, sits to work. [from 16th c.]
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206:
- [N]or is there any place to let your legs hang down in, passengers sitting upon a platform like tailors on their shopboard.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206: